"What do you do when you first get a data set that's a billion rows long?" asks SAS CEO Jim Goodnight. "You want to play around with it." At dozens of SAS events over the last year, audience attendees have watched Goodnight do just that, quickly grabbing 1.15 billion records, selecting
Our recent innovations into Data Visualisation have led us to be inundated and involved in lots of conversations with customers and prospects looking to benefit from the marriage of advanced analytics, visualisation, data management and simplicity. Greg and Minh delved into the benefits that this marriage can yield and why data visualisation should form an
For people around the world, Valentine’s Day is an annual celebration of romantic love. But, for those of us at SAS, Feb. 14 has the added significance of being “Love-the-Hub Day.” My last post described the Hub as our internal social networking platform and one of the many reasons why we
Remember that video we posted recently with Kimberly Holmes of XL Insurance? In it, she says the demo she saw about a fake toy company using SAS Visual Analytics sparked so many new ideas for her that she wished she had a tape recorder in her brain to capture them
February is one of my favorite months. Each year, I get to spend the last week of February in California, hanging out with my buds. It’s because the blind guy goes to this conference in San Diego dedicated to making life better for people with disabilities. A lot of blind
If you’ve got a few minutes to chat with Marc Huber, don’t miss the opportunity. He has an interesting take on the human side of statistics. As a senior analytical training consultant for SAS, he combines an impressive background in psychology with a passion for math to teach customers around the
It has become clear after speaking with numerous health insurance carriers, both in the United States and beyond, as well as at conferences (such as NHCAA), that there is a mass movement towards the nirvana that is "predictive modeling." Now that our industry is realizing the importance of predictive modeling
It is an amazing time to be teacher or student. The proliferation of mobile technology and its accompanying “app” explosion have caused a profound change in how mobile education resources are created and shared. Today, there are literally millions of apps to choose from to help with anything from rote memorization of
So here we are. After years of talking about how to prepare students for success in the 21st century, we are now more than a decade in. But we still struggle with the same old challenges in education: “How can we effectively integrate technology into the classroom?” “How can we
There are numerous algorithms used in forecasting, and each of those algorithms is optimized for a certain class of data. How does a business analyst know which forecasting algorithm to use? With the new version of SAS Visual Analytics, you don’t have to know – the product does all the
